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Lickey End reminds me of an Irish friend's home town, Bally Licky.

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A few more from Germany:

Kotzen
Böß-Gesäß
Sonnschied
Schweinschied
Eulenbis
Hundeluft
Busenbach
Sterbfritz

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Cornwall does remarkably well here - Splat, Brown Willy, another Pityme (sic, where they make excellent beer), Pennycomequick, which is in Plymouth, comes from the Cornish (for etemologies of which, seehere), and my favourite, London Apprentice, which is is a hamlet near St Austell.

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Idle (Bradford, Yorkshire) with its famous 'Idle working mans club'

David

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Tomaycalla, name of some different places in Peru, meaning "drink and shut up"

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Muggenbeet (Mosquito bite) in The Netherlands
Gammel (ramshackle) in Belgium

and a tiny village in The Netherlands called Boenderpas, which is a corruption of the French bon repas, history has it that Napoleon spent the night there on his way east ...

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